Blue Rose Trilogy · Book 1
Koko
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 562
- ISBN-13
- 9780307472205
- Type
- novel

About this book
Koko opens the trilogy in 1988 at 562 pages and won the World Fantasy Award, following four Vietnam veterans reunited by the discovery that a wartime atrocity they buried may be resurfacing as murders across Asia.
Its place in Blue Rose Trilogy
Koko is book 1 in the Blue Rose Trilogy series. It is followed by Mystery. See the full Blue Rose Trilogy reading order.
The Blue Rose Trilogy is Peter Straub's loosely connected sequence of literary horror-mysteries, named for the words a killer leaves scrawled at each of his crime scenes in the shared fictional town of Millhaven, Illinois. Koko (1988), which won the World Fantasy Award, follows four Vietnam veterans reunited by the discovery that a wartime atrocity they buried may be resurfacing as a string of murders across Asia, each signed with the name "Koko." Mystery (1990) shifts focus to Tom Pasmore, a young boy who…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780307472205